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Also, you might have trouble accessing hardware from within VMware... Might be better off running the PVR and VMware from within Linux, and then Windows within the VMware. Or just forget about Windows and run IceWM/Firefox/etc. :)

FordPrefect, VMware Server is free, oddly enough. Try that out first and see if it does what you need!

Thanks glen4cindy. I did not know you could do that with TitanTV!

I am interested in that as well. Is there any kind of "FTA TV Guide"? It would make FTA much more usable for TV watching (as opposed to just hobbyist use) if you had a guide. I also thing some kind of guide would help me justify buying a PVR of some sort!

Thanks!

OK, just read a technical analysis of XM. They use a combination of extremely high power and a much lower symbol rate than typical FTA signals. The lower symbol rate makes noise much easier to filter out. http://www.xmxp.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-39.html Based on this, it would be...

Hmm, what frequencies does that operate on?

Oh well, no responses. I guess I'll take my chances on eBay. :-/

My TS160 clicks when the relay switches from Antenna In to Cable In. Do you have anything plugged in to those ports?

I've used one temporarily and it will hot-spot. However, the pricture is very bright, and you can always arrange it so the hot-spot will not be visible to the viewers, by adjusting the vertical position of the projector and the height of the screen.

Just bought a Samsung SIR-TS160 (and a Hughes HTL-HD) for OTA HD and cable reception. I have previously experimented with a Fusion HDTV USB 2.0 receiver, but wanted something simple to give to less technical friends/family. The Hughes unit can be set up for Cable/Antenna without a satellite...

Even if you've tried both a straight-through and a null-modem cable, it's worth trying a couple more. I recently had a similar problem, and it turned out one of my cables was bad!

Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America! mmmmmmmmmmm motorized!

Thanks to everyone! It turned out to be a bad cable (one of those light blue cisco cables). Replaced it with an identical one and it worked! Now I'm just trying to figure out how to program the universal remote it came with. I hold down "TV" and "OK" for several seconds, but TV never lights...

OK, I made the mistake of buying my first set-top FTA box off of Ebay... It's a Coolsat 6000 Premium, and it seems to work OK (crashed once but might have been my flaky Disecq switch or something). I thought about upgrading the firmware but noticed that the firmware it was shipped with is...